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The fre:ac code repositories have been migrated from the aging CVS to contemporary Git repositories. The new repositories are hosted at GitHub (fre:ac, BoCA) and mirrored at SourceForge (fre:ac, BoCA). Full history of commits is preserved in the new repositories.

Feel free to fork the code and send pull requests!

The previous CVS repositories will be available for one more week and then be taken offline.

fre:ac snapshot 20170729

Saturday, 29 July 2017 17:33

fre:ac snapshot 20170729 has been released and is now available for download!

The new release includes a simple protocol viewer and improves handling of several audio formats. It changes the way virtual .aiff files generated for audio CD tracks on macOS are handled to prevent the CD drive from constantly repositioning the laser, allows decoding some .m4a files with defective headers that previous versions rejected and adds support for decoding ATRAC-1 files.

The new version also introduces some performance optimizations that can speed up parallel conversions by up to 5% and updates all codecs to the latest versions, most notably the Opus codec to the new 1.2 release.

In addition, fre:ac 20170729 includes lots of minor improvements and fixes for issues found in earlier versions of fre:ac.

Upgrading to the 20170729 release is strongly recommended if you are using an earlier snapshot. Please be aware, however, that this is a preview release and not meant for daily work. Please report issues on the SourceForge bug tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

fre:ac snapshot 20170317 has been released and is now available for download!

This release adds support for album artist tag fields and improves cuesheet and playlist handling by allowing to write separate cuesheets/playlists per output folder and by adding support for reading cuesheets stored in tags.

It also adds a heuristic to infer title information from file and folder names in the absence of tags and makes all supported codecs available in the freaccmd command line interface.

In addition, the new release includes numerous minor improvements, some codec updates and several fixes for issues found in earlier versions of fre:ac.

Upgrading to the 20170317 release is strongly recommended if you are using an earlier snapshot. Please be aware, however, that this is a preview release and not meant for daily work. Please report issues on the SourceForge bug tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

The new release updates the FLAC codec to version 1.3.2, updates the traditional Chinese translation and fixes a bug related to cover art handling.

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.0.28 is recommended to all users of earlier versions. You can download it at the downloads section of this site.

fre:ac v1.0.27

Sunday, 04 December 2016 12:55

fre:ac version 1.0.27 has been released on 4th December 2016. This release updates translations and fixes several bugs found in earlier versions.

The new release fixes several issues related to freedb/CDDB queries and submissions and improves internal handling of cover-art.

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.0.27 is strongly recommended to all users of earlier versions. You can download it at the downloads section of this site.

fre:ac snapshot 20161129

Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:25

fre:ac snapshot 20161129 has been released and is now available for download!

This release adds support for multi-channel Opus files and updates codec libraries to the latest versions.

In addition, the new release fixes several issues found in earlier versions. Most notably, an issue where fre:ac hung on OS X 10.11 El Capitan when querying the freedb database.

Upgrading to the 20161129 release is strongly recommended if you are using an earlier snapshot. Please be aware, however, that this is a preview release and not meant for daily work. Please report issues on the SourceForge bug tracker or by email to support@freac.org.